VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Taunton

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 -
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 1.85% 4.00% 4.17%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% 25.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
Somerset median daily rate £683 £633 £575
% change year-on-year +8.02% +10.00% +109.09%

All System Software Skills
Taunton

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 24 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 22.22% 16.00% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile - £262 -
25th Percentile £406 £415 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £450 £600 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
Somerset median daily rate £475 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +11.76% -18.27% +112.24%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Taunton

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware